I use tiddlywiki's for a lot of rpg stuff and it can be a challenge to come up with unique name for some of the tiddlers and fields. If you add a caption field to a tiddler the table of contents macro will display it instead. That can help clean things up.
On Wednesday, October 20, 2021 at 10:09:45 PM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > That's good stuff. > > If you like to tag content for a menu to be automatic reflect the content, > the built-in stuff in TiddlyWiki is right awesome. > > Me, I tend to like control on my menus, adding menu items which then take > me to the content. > > It is a bit like one approach is bottom up, and the other is top down. > (Not sure which would be which.) Either way equally good, probably a > difference in right-brain versus left-brain thinking. Maybe more so the > purpose of the menu. Meh ... > > That details thing I suggested, that was very rough around the edges, just > to throw the quick thought together. It could be oh-so-sweet with some > proper design. But only of value if you're of a > "menu-first-towards-content" mindset versus "content-first-towards-menu" > mindset. > > Either way, so much fun ! > > > > On Wednesday, October 20, 2021 at 10:30:23 PM UTC-3 [email protected] > wrote: > >> Thank you both so much! Either option seems like it'll do what I want >> with a bit of adjusting! It's hard to believe I was overcomplicating this >> so much, but I suppose it's as they say and all of the world really is just >> a nail when all you have is a hammer. I guess now I just have to decide >> between having the triangles that I want or having the list easily expanded >> using the tags system. >> [image: AlternativeCapture.PNG] [image: AlternativeCapture2.PNG] >> Using details has this quirk that the em2 margin applies to everything, >> though I've fixed it by removing the * from .indent_details *{ >> [image: TOC.PNG] [image: TOC2.PNG] >> Using Table of Contents gave me numbers that I thankfully already knew >> how to remove from my past muddlings: >> <style>ol {list-style-type: none;}</style> >> <<toc-selective-expandable "TableOfContents" "sort[tocpos]">> >> tocpos is just a value I made up so I can assign value 1 to Home and 2 to >> Character Advancement, a bit messy but it seems I can use decimals if I >> need to jam something in the middle later. This way I get whatever >> arbitrary sorting I want instead of going purely alphabetical (looks like >> it uses the alphabet for tie breakers which is nice). Unlike with >> [[Home|SQPFSRD]] that I can put in details I had to make a Home page to >> contain {{SQPFSRD}} and add that to my table instead, but most of my pages >> won't need this treatment (I could just rename the page, but having this >> option as well is reassuring). >> >> Leaning towards Table of Contents purely for how much less work it is. I >> suppose now my goal is figuring out how to style the ToC so that it doesn't >> indent as far, and maybe getting it to use triangles somehow. >> >> On Wednesday, 20 October 2021 at 20:33:16 UTC-4 Eric Shulman wrote: >> >>> The TiddlyWiki standard distribution includes a set of macros to display >>> a hierarchical "Table of Contents" >>> https://tiddlywiki.com/#Table-of-Contents%20Macros >>> https://tiddlywiki.com/#Table-of-Contents%20Macros%20(Examples) >>> >>> For your purposes, you probably want to use the >>> `<<toc-selective-expandable ...>>` macro. >>> >>> enjoy, >>> -e >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/9586335d-0e6e-4839-8798-ac7ba28670cfn%40googlegroups.com.
